Gary Scharrer: Governor candidate less anxious “to get on down the road”

Remindful of the infamous DPS video that Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tony Sanchez used to embarrass Gov. Rick Perry in TV campaign spots four years ago, this year’s Democrat candidate stayed put when his driver got stopped for speeding Monday.

Candidate Chris Bell apologized for his tardy arrival at an Austin news conference, explaining that he thought it would be not be a good idea to ask the officer “to let me get on down the road.”

That’s the line that then Lt. Gov. Perry used on an officer after Perry and his driver got stopped for speeding.

Perry’s plea to “let us get on down the road” got captured by a Department of Public Safety video camera, which Sanchez ran in campaign ads. Perry, of course, sent Sanchez packing in the 2002 election.